{"id":672,"date":"2016-05-28T13:36:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T03:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provenancerecords.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:03:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:03:47","slug":"pr001-medicine-voice-thou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2016\/05\/28\/pr001-medicine-voice-thou\/","title":{"rendered":"PR001: Medicine Voice &#8211; I And Thou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sar Friedman recruits Oren Ambarchi and Joe Talia for her debut solo record as Medicine Voice, an album of electronics, hypnotic tones and ecstatic acoustics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/261765948&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A mesmerising musical vision quest\u201d <\/em>The Wire<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSlow-motion existential pop, bridging the mystical and the minimal\u201d<\/em> Double J<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It\u2019s rare that you come across a new artist as evolved and full-formed as Medicine Voice .. a shamanic, transcendental debut&#8221;<\/em> Happy<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHer sedative, soaring vocals meet with shamanic drum, harmonium, piano, organ and percussion \u2026 showcasing a raw\u00a0depth of emotion that lingers with you long after listening\u201d<\/em> FBI Radio, Independent Artist Of The Week<\/p>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<p><em>I and Thou<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0the first LP from <strong>Sar Friedman<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>MEDICINE VOICE<\/strong> project, which combines her soaring vocals and esoteric lyrics with minimal, extended song structures.<\/p>\n<p>Over arrangements ranging from bare hand-percussion to ecstatic walls of electrified drone, Friedman\u2019s lyrics narrate her own mystical journey using concepts drawn from Joseph Campbell\u2019s pan-cultural \u2018monomyth\u2019 and Martin Buber\u2019s attempt to existentially grasp the encounter with the Other.<\/p>\n<p>The record features\u00a0<strong>Oren Ambarchi<\/strong> on guitar and drums, who alongside engineer and multi-instrumentalist <strong>Joe Talia<\/strong>, weaves a rich instrumental tapestry around Friedman\u2019s vocals, various keyboards and percussion instruments: the epic \u2018<em>Meeting the White Spirit<\/em>\u2019 ends with a rich display of Ambarchi\u2019s signature guitar tones and Talia\u2019s delicate analogue tape manipulations form the core of \u2018<em>Meeting the Shadow<\/em>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman\u2019s powerful voice has an emotive depth and raw tone reminiscent of PJ Harvey or Chan Marshall, but her songwriting and composition move far beyond rock\/pop boundaries to embrace a slow motion, hymnal music, the pacing and dynamic logic of which gesture towards both the most intimate outreaches of minimalism and the eastern-tinged improvisations of Alice Coltrane or Don Cherry\u2019s Organic Music Society.<\/p>\n<p><em>I and Thou<\/em> introduces a powerful and already highly developed voice willing to push the boundaries of the song and cross-pollinate it with electronics, hypnotic tones and ecstatic acoustics in order to reach forms that resonate with the esoteric and mystical concerns of her lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>[dotted1]<\/p>\n<p>[highlight color=&#8221;silver&#8221;]TRACKLISTING[\/highlight]<br \/>\n1 &#8211; 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